Tamra Davis Quotes
It's incredible what happens when you explain to kids what good food is - they get so excited! They go home and tell their parents... and they're excited to cook the recipes themselves in class.
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I want to coach high school football, and that's always what I've wanted to do.
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Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.
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I've had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news and movies.
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It was kind of easier for me to do records that didn't take a year or two years of my life to write and to make.
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Dementia resembles delirium in the same way an ultra-marathon resembles a dash across the street. Same basic components, vastly different scale. If you've run delirium's course once or twice in your life, try to imagine a version that never ends.
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When 'Mulholland Dr.' was voted the Best Film of the Decade, that was very meaningful for me. That film opened up incredible doors for me, and I believe that that was the reason I was given opportunities to play all kinds of characters.
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Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film.
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Beating Pakistan is always special because they are a tough team and we have a bit of a history regarding Pakistan.
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All the time I was writing hit songs with my partner David Porter, I always had the yen to perform. Sure did. And when the opportunity came, I took it. The first album, 'Presenting Isaac Hayes,' didn't do so hot, but it was like a prelude for what was to come.
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The spiritual is the cause of action. Action is life.
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I probably follow all sports a little bit. I like hockey quite a bit. I like football. I like college basketball when it gets down to March Madness. I like baseball. I enjoy them all. I watch them all.
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For singers, I believe we can sing in a lot of keys. I know I have this big range, but the point is to find a key that emotionally connects people.
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I do have the personnel that we use in the back of my head when I'm working, but I also don't want to limit myself.
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I think most people have creative ideas and have very strange, unorthodox impulses of things that they can do with their lives. I've had many of these over the years, but I decided the more important question was, 'When did I start calling this art?'
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
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Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.
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An activist is someone who cannot help but fight for something. That person is not usually motivated by a need for power or money or fame, but in fact is driven slightly mad by some injustice, some cruelty, some unfairness, so much so that he or she is compelled by some internal moral engine to act to make it better.
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I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.
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I would go home and be this insular girl who listened to music and brooded in her bedroom.
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If I can help get anybody through puberty, I say, 'Good!'
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My whole life was duality: Here's my life at home, here's my life on the road.
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It's incredible what happens when you explain to kids what good food is - they get so excited! They go home and tell their parents... and they're excited to cook the recipes themselves in class.
